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<h3>Grid RegIstry with Metadata Oriented Interface: Robustness, Efficiency, Security </h3>
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<em>A Grimoire is magician's manual for invoking demons (Oxford English Dictionary)</em>
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A Grimoire is <em>a magician's manual for invoking demons</em> (Oxford English Dictionary). Likewise, the Grimoires registry hosts descriptions of services and workflows, which a scientist can use for forming their complex scientific experiments.  However, service and workflow interfaces are sometimes underspecified and therefore difficult to use in an automated manner; hence, the 
Grimoires registry augments their interfaces with metadata such as functionality, semantic information about their inputs and outputs, or various metrics (e.g. perceived quality of service, trust).<h5>
<a href="./docs/">Browse online documentation</a> </h5>
<h5><a href="http://www.grimoires.org">Visit Grimoires homepage</a></h5>
<h5><a href="services">View deployed interfaces</a></h5>
<h5><a href="./monitor.jsp">Check the status of Grimoires registry</a> (This may take some time depending on Grimoires' registered data size.)</h5>
<h5><a href="./interpreter.html">GrimoiresScript interpreter</a> </h5>
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<em>Sponsors:</em>
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<em>Institutions:</em>
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